It's about now Lizzzzza / Lisa / NASA / psycho stalker rings the radio station and asks them to play Misty for her. And Radio Santa Royale, playing all your middle of the road AOR, will be more than happy to oblige. "Name that tune" for tickets to the next Hombres game!

Due to the position of the smallish stethoscope (rhinoscope?), it is indeed hard to make out whether the name badge still reads Lisa or has been changed to Nasa.Perhaps this female's name, much as her ever-changing facial features, will slowly morph, letter by letter, over the next few Worthiworse time units. Possible option:LIZALISAPISAPITAPITSPETSNETSNUTS....discuss!

Oh, Smoopie! You noticed! I try so hard to end every sentence with an exclamation mark! It makes my bad writing seem so much more compelling! I love you! We should have dinner! I'll pick you up at 8! Buhbye now!Love, LiZSa

I will be at the Bum Boat tonight at 8 for the all-you-can-eat lumpy brown thing buffet! Anyone who would like to stop by and discuss the use of punctuation in today's fine writing is welcome to joing me! Bring examples of your own writing! Or your drawings! Or your dream journal! See you tonight!Karen!

Visual evidence that Drew is a pinhead: check out the thingies on HIS stethoscope that go in his ears. Is that the one that came with his hand-me-down Wetsy Betsy when he was a child? Seriously, there is no way he can use that in his ears. And it's way too big for his nose. Holy cow! What's up with that?

--wheelhead

iness - so close to illness, which is what I am feeling right now whenever I see Liza's clueless desperation. It could also stand for "I-ness" as in, it's all about me. So appropriate for Dr. Drew...

I think I may have to change my Mary Worth name from Punky to "Says You!" Meetcha back in the fourth grade, LiZa.

Today I'm really taken by LiZa's specious reasoning of "we have to eat, don't we?!" Just because I have to eat dinner tonight, LiZa, doesn't mean that George Clooney might as well join me. I think she's pulled this line of reasoning before, with her "might as well eat at 9 rather than 6!" approach to getting Drew to buy her dinner. She sure is fixated on having meals with him. "Can I bring my smallish pony?"

This may just be a (very) roundabout way to introduce a new character, you know the one who lives for a month or two in the transient condo at Charterstone, leaving only when his/her/their plpotline ends.

I sense the character will be a lawyer, and said lawyer will be conscripted to file a restraining order for Dr. Drew against Liza/Lisa/Nausea. It won't stick of course--good luck getting the right name on the legal document.

Exactly what "relationship" are they talking about? All I saw were bland conversations over bland food, with a few thought balloons here and there. It's not as if they flew kites, or discussed the varied landscape. Heck, they never even made it to the Bum Boat.

@birdie 10:20 a.m. - ah, let's take that one step further - LiZa then holds Jill hostage, cuts off a hank of her hair and threatens her with a pair of scissors... Nah, maybe they just sit down in a corner together with a bottle of moonshine.

I think we're onto something here: The one or two REAL professionals at Mountview Hospital have come up with a clever way to secretly identify who's a "Volunteer" (euphemism for "incompetent") and who's legit. They hand out toy stethoscopes from the gift shoppe as a "welcoming gift", knowing the faux medical staff will be super impressed and won't know the difference! The faux "doctors" also get nifty clipboards! while the real professionals quietly tap data into computers.

Best part of Sunday's strip: the EMERGENCY arrow, pointing right at.... LiZa! Who here thinks that Drew's weak "Maybe I should just avoid her" thought bubble will work? Anyone? I thought not. And the nurse in the nurse's cap in the last panel was a nice touch - good to see it's still 1955 in Santa Royale. Except for those Kindles. I mean, reading devices.

I have respect for the "real" nurse in the last panel, what with her freshly starched white nurse's cap and carefully pressed dress and polished white shoes! (Actually my mom was one of those type nurses, decades ago-- "back in the day"!)

Lol, I bet THAT nurse has a PROPER stethoscope! No gift-shop kiddie play scope for her!

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